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[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 07, 2020, 07:04:42 PM ---I do not think they feed on souls. They feed on your spiritual power, your life energy.
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Emotions... However they can also burn the Hunger.. The Hunger feeds off of passion and lust, but true love will burn it out.. I guess if you call passion and lust, life energy, it feeds off of that, however true love, if you define that as spiritual power will burn it out.. Others feed off of fear, guess that one can be called life energy.. Now does bravery cancel it out?
didymos:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 07, 2020, 10:54:14 PM ---Others feed off of fear, guess that one can be called life energy.. Now does bravery cancel it out?
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Yes:
--- Quote ---“You’ve said that True Love (real True Love) only protects against WCVamps feeding on lust. What protects against the other WCVamps?”
It isn’t real complicated that way. The vamps who feed on fear get bad effects from real courage. Those who feed on despair choke on hope. :)
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Yuillegan:
Well Jim's explanation is a weak one, and certainly not something that makes sense logically. It definitely isn't rooted in biology. ALL beings need energy, the primary way is feeding. The parasite/Hunger would STILL need to eat during the time between the birth of it's fleshy host and when it finally emerges during its "first" feeding. Dormant insects (and other beings for that matter) still require energy during dormancy (diapause), they have to gather things for the dormant being to sustain itself on. I mean really. The so-called first feeding isn't even the first feeding, because it starts feeding during gestation! You can see Jim is really on the back foot when asked that question, because he stumbles through it and relies on the questioners answer (a common technique when you haven't got a better answer) to their own question.
I concede it might be canon then, but it is a poorly thought out part of the world. Worse still, it doesn't properly align with the information he wrote when he wrote Blood Rites. I imagine he had different ideas about his White Court Vampires when he first wrote them, and then had to sort of patch things on when he expanded their world.
Even if the embryonic Hunger gathered all it needed to eat during the extended period of dormancy for 18 years from it's Host's mother (without somehow killing them both) it hardly explains what the hell they actually feed on. Or how.
Not to mention, are we expected to believe that a young WCV like Inari just has no sexual contact before 18? Statistically more than half of teens have had sex before 18 in the US (I am using US data because it it more relevant to Inari). Even if she herself hadn't, are we supposed to believe that the Hunger didn't rear it's head at all before that? The whole thing is just poorly done imo.
As for whether they feed off life energy, spirit, soul or emotions...I think you guys are making distinctions where you don't have to. Bob talks about it to Harry more than once. And since the literal purpose of Bob is as a talking head, and he is literally a talking head, you can safely assume that he is talking to the reader as much as Harry. All those things are tied together, which means that WCVs feed off all of them.
Bad Alias:
The Justine and Molly references were to life energy and life respectively, not soul.
Yuillegan:
As I said, you might be making a distinction where one isn't needed. They are different things, but all bound together. Eating one doesn't mean you're not getting another. Streams, oceans, puddles, rain, tears, ponds, pools, fountains and falls. All are different, all are water.
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